Tag: Gram Panchayat

Bhubaneswar: Addressing a State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) meeting here on Tuesday, Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera revealed that the state government will assist in opening 340 brick and mortar branches and 337 fixed-location business correspondent (BC) and ultra-small branches in unbanked gram panchayats in the next three years. The State Potential Credit Plan for […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) scheduled in February next year, the Odisha government has asked all district collectors to complete the process of delimitation of wards and reservation of seats by August 19 next. In a letter to all district collectors, Deoranjan Kumar Singh, commissioner-cum-secretary, Panchayati Raj, has asked […]

The Odisha government has decided to form 500 new gram panchayats (GPs) before the Panchayat polls scheduled next year

In a unique way of protest, members of Odisha Gram Panchayat Karmachari Sangh on Monday rolled down the road at Lower PMG demanding fulfilment of their two-point charter of demands

Malkangiri: No one turned up to cast vote for panchayat polls in 13 booths in a gram panchayat under Korkonda block of Malkangiri district today due to fear of Maoists, officials said. However, a large number of Bonda people, a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG), made queues before polling booths in Khairput block of the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed rural India, gram panchayats for playing an active role in the fight against COVID-19 and in supplying food grains to the poor and migrant workers. He launched e-GramSwaraj portal and Swamitva Scheme on the occasion of the Panchayati Raj Day. He also interacted with village-heads from […]